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Daily Brief

Friday, 21 March 2025

by OC Media

•3 min read

Regional * During a briefing on Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova expressed Russia’s readiness to ‘provide support to our Azerbaijani and Armenian partners on all tracks in the form and volume that will be in demand by both parties’. She added that the Special Representative of the Russian Foreign Minister for Assistance to the Normalisation of Relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Igor Khovaev, ‘is ready to come to the region to hold relevant consultations’.

Daily Brief

Wednesday, 19 March 2025

by OC Media

•4 min read

Regional * On Tuesday and Wednesday, Azerbaijan’s Defence Ministry again claimed that Armenian forces violated the ceasefire on several different occasions throughout the day, night, and into the early morning. In response, the Armenian Defence Ministry has released several dismissals of the Azerbaijani accusations of ceasefire violations. The Armenian ministry also ‘reaffirm[ed]’ its readiness ‘to investigate the facts supporting’ the Azerbaijani accusations of ceasefire violations. * On Tue

Daily Brief

Tuesday, 18 March 2025

by OC Media

•4 min read

Regional * Yerevan has again denied accusations by Baku that ‘Armenian Armed Forces fired at Azerbaijani positions located in the eastern and southeastern sectors of the border’. It is the seventh accusation from the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry regarding a ceasefire violation in two days. * According to Armenian Parliamentary Speaker Alen Simonyan, the peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan includes solutions to all the issues that Azerbaijan has presented as ‘concerns’. ‘Ultimately, th

Daily Brief

Monday, 17 March 2025

by OC Media

•4 min read

Regional * More countries and organisations have welcomed the completion of negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the draft text of the peace treaty, including Russia, the CSTO, NATO, and Greece. * On Sunday, the Armenian Defence Ministry dismissed Azerbaijani accusations of ceasefire violations three times (one, two, three). * On Monday, the EU Mission in Armenia said that on 16–17 March, its representatives had patrolled ‘various locations’ along the Armenia and Azerbaijan border,